OBITUARY.
GENERAL DRAGOITMIROFF DEAD. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association.— » St. Petersburg, October 29. General Dragoumiroff, of the Rus- | sian army, is dead. I • — ; The deceased was one of the most distinguished generals in the Russian army.' He took a very prominent part throughout j the Russo-Turkish war of 1877, and com- l inanded the advance guard at the passage j of the Danube. He published a well- ( known manual on the preparation of troops J for kittle. When the question of finding ! a successor to General Kuropatkin was \ under consideration last year, he was mentioned as having been offered and refused j i the post.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13011, 31 October 1905, Page 5
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